Works Which Can Move You To Tears

[White Knight]

Again, borrowing a concept from our sister forum over at Talk Classical, I would like us to submit and share with our fellow members those pieces of music--be they clasical, jazz, prog rock etc. etc.--from any musical genre which can move you to tears due to its sheer emotion and beauty.
I wish to start by nominating a piece from the jazz world crafted by a gifted and sensitive musician who was taken from this world at an obscenely young age. Every time I think about him, and listen to this work, I cry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ze3y...eature=related. And again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3f1U...eature=related

[JHC]

I have that on CD what can you say, but I am not moved to tears by it or any music unless I associate it with some thing sad or a place or someone, a loved one no longer with us etc, but when you add words in any form then that is something else.

[White Knight]

I have that on CD what can you say, but I am not moved to tears by it or any music unless I associate it with some thing sad or a place or someone, a loved one no longer with us etc, but when you add words in any form then that is something else.

Colin, all 's I can say is you're one tough hombre, a lot tougher than me!

[JHC]

No, not at all, I cry when watching Films or hearing poetry I really am a very sensitive person

[Corno Dolce]

A totally different vehicle for interpreting this very famous work of Rachmaninoff but then again, Vocalise moves me to tears five ways from Sunday:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWZ-uOLywTg

[JHC]

Greetings Comrade CD, I have just received 6 notifications of answered post on MIMF and you have triggered each one lol. The organ sounds beautiful with the Rachmaninoff what does it make you think of to make you weep?

[Dorsetmike]

Think we've had a similar thread before but quite some time back, so there's some new members to add their input.

For me it has to be Purcell's "When I am Laid in Earth" - Dodo's lament from his opera Dido and Aeneas, I've just had a quick youtube and my hanky is now sopping wet

Herewith Jessie Norman's interpretation



or Evelyn Tubb's version

[teddy]

Cant say I have ever ben moved to tears by any music but standing in a field with 10,000 other people listening to Jerusalem at the local prom certainly stirred me. Also The Moody Blues - To Our Childrens Childrens Children has a similar affeft. My wife cries when I sing, but I think that is a different matter.

teddy

[Corno Dolce]

The organ sounds beautiful with the Rachmaninoff what does it make you think of to make you weep?

Excellent question but my answer might be a let-down for you - It is the wistfully melancholic poignancy that makes me run through a whole box of Kleenex tissues - I kid you not - All it takes is the first chord for that piece and the Niagara Falls of tears start streamin......................

[Corno Dolce]

The organ sounds beautiful with the Rachmaninoff what does it make you think of to make you weep?

Excellent question but my answer might be a let-down for you - It is the wistfully melancholic poignancy that makes me run through a whole box of Kleenex tissues - I kid you not - All it takes is the first chord of that piece and the Niagara Falls of tears start streamin......................

[JHC]

Think we've had a similar thread before but quite some time back, so there's some new members to add their input.

For me it has to be Purcell's "When I am Laid in Earth" - Dodo's lament from his opera Dido and Aeneas, I've just had a quick youtube and my hanky is now sopping wet

Herewith Jessie Norman's interpretation




or Evelyn Tubb's version

I am with you on this one mike a fantastic work and performance.

[JHC]

Excellent question but my answer might be a let-down for you - It is the wistfully melancholic poignancy that makes me run through a whole box of Kleenex tissues - I kid you not - All it takes is the first chord of that piece and the Niagara Falls of tears start streamin......................

You don't relate it to anything, is this only with the Organ version?

[teddy]

There is an aria from The Marriage of Figaro which is used in THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION One of thefavourite films. In the context it is used in I do find it very moving.

teddy

[Corno Dolce]

You don't relate it to anything, is this only with the Organ version?

Sorry to have let you down - E.G. When I see a man who is crying because he lost his wife because of a drunk driver or an awful illness or when a mother wails over the death of her infant or mob violence or governmental oppression........

I think quite a few organ artisans have recorded this - I have done some "creative" arranging of it and played it for quite a few funerals in my days........

[JHC]

Talking of Jessie Norman I was told that during a rehearsal of a certain opera she made a rather undignified entrance, at the end of the rehearsal the boss man suggested that it could help if she made the entrance sideways to which she replied “Darling I don’t have a sideways”